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New Wisdom Weekly: Changing your mind

Issue #2025-42 This makes you strong ... Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Over time, I’ve learned that clarity doesn’t come from adding more — it comes from removing what isn’t needed. Wisdom Weekly is meant to be simple. One thought. One pause. Something you can read quickly and carry with you, without being asked to click, buy, or go anywhere else. So each week, I’m sharing...

Thank yourself ... for being you.

Issue #2025-41 Thank yourself ... Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Calvin Cordozar Broadus said it ... Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reshaping Wisdom Weekly into something simpler and more honest — an unnewsletter. No links, no promos, no “here’s what you missed.” Just one idea each week that stands fully on its own. Something you can read in under three minutes, carry...

Gratitude Grows when you give it away ...

Issue #2025-40 The Kind that Grows ... Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. That's it ... Over the last stretch of weeks, I’ve been reflecting deeply on what I want Wisdom Weekly to feel like not just for you, but for me. I realized I don’t want to fill your inbox with links, recaps, or subtle invitations to go somewhere else. I don’t want to play the game of “optimize the list”...

You can take a step. Just one, today.

Issue #2025-39 The New Wisdom Weekly - no links, no funnel, no clutter, the UN-newsletter Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Keeping it Up Like I shared last week ... I’ve been rethinking what I want Wisdom Weekly to be. I realized I don’t want to send another email full of links, recaps, summaries, or gentle nudges toward marketing. There’s enough of that out there already....

You've done harder things

Issue #2025-38 The New Wisdom Weekly - no links, no funnel, no clutter, the UN-newsletter Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. New Beginnings Over the past few months, I’ve stepped back and really reflected on what Wisdom Weekly could be. I realized I don’t want to send you another recap, another collection of links, or another pitch disguised as insight. That's just not me and...

Give your teams the Freedom of How

Issue #2025-37 Lead with Clarity, Win with Freedom Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Today marks a huge milestone—the 300th episode of Paper Napkin Wisdom! Over the past decade, we’ve shared countless napkin-sized insights from entrepreneurs, leaders, athletes, and difference-makers around the world. Each one has been a reminder that big change often starts with a small, clear...

How Our Brains Invent Truth and Why It Matters After Charlie Kirk's Death

Issue #2025-36 Algorithms, Illusions, and the Death of Truth Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Did you know that purple doesn’t actually exist? Your eyes don’t see it—your brain creates it by filling in the absence of yellow. Wild, right? What feels so real is actually a construction. And it made me wonder: if something as simple as color is invented in our heads, what else...

Don't let the Past How Cloud Your Future

Issue #2025-35 The Future How is in Front of You ... Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Have you ever caught yourself holding back on a big vision because you didn’t know how to make it happen? I’ve been there more times than I can count. Every time I set out to build or grow something I’d never done before, I’d freeze. I’d look backwards, searching for instructions in my past,...

Push vs Pull - Pain vs Vision

Issue #2025-34 Stop Running From Pain: The Leadership Shift That Creates Momentum Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. So many times in my past I caught myself saying things like “I need to lose weight” or “I need to pay off this debt.” Maybe you’ve said something similar. It’s the natural instinct to push away from pain. And it works—at least for a while. But here’s the problem:...

Clearing the Fog in Communication as Leaders

Issue #2025-33 Clearing the Fog in Our Communication Happy Sunday Reader! We often share your insights with our community, and this update will keep you informed about how your wisdom is inspiring others. Have you ever noticed how, when there’s a gap in communication, it almost always gets filled with negative energy? A short text like “We need to talk” can spark worry. Silence after someone shares something can create doubt. Even polished words that don’t sound quite like us can feel “off”...